[unsolempne] The whiche men, no-thing elles ne broughte hem to
the deeth but only for they weren enfourmed of myne maneres,
and semeden most unlyke to the studies of wikkede folk. And
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forthy thou oughtest nat to wondren though that I, in the bittre
see of this lyf, be fordriven with tempestes blowinge aboute, in
the whiche tempestes this is my most purpos, that is to seyn, to
displesen to wikkede men. Of whiche shrewes, al be the ost
never so greet, [it is to dispyse]; for it nis governed with no leder
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